What Is Mind Quotes

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.